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.TH GXINE 1 "27 April 2005"
.SH NAME
gxine \- a GTK/GNOME frontend to the xine video player

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gxine
.RI [ options "] [" "files or MRLs" ]
.br

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
\fBgxine\fP plays MPEG system (audio and video) streams, MPEG elementary
streams (e.g. .mp3, .mpa or .mpv files), MPEG transport streams, AVI files,
ASF files, Quicktime files, (S)VCDs and DVDs - anything which xine-lib can
handle.
.PP
Typical usage looks like
.RS
.B gxine some.mpg
.br
.B gxine \-f dvd:/
.br
.B gxine dvd://home/user/dvd/my.iso
.RE

.SH OPTIONS
.PP
.BI \-A \ audio_driver
.br
.BI \-\-audio \ audio_driver
.RS
Select which libxine audio driver to use. This setting is not permanent, but
it does prevent selection of other drivers via the preferences window.
.RE
.PP
.BI \-V \ video_driver
.br
.BI \-\-video \ video_driver
.RS
Select which libxine video driver to use. This setting is not permanent, but
it does prevent selection of other drivers via the preferences window.
.RE
.PP
.B \-S
.br
.B \-\-no\-splash
.RS
Don't show the splash window during startup.
.RE
.PP
.B \-a
.br
.B \-\-add
.RS
Don't clear the playlist before adding any MRLs;
start playing the first new MRL.
.RE
.PP
.B \-e
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.B \-\-enqueue
.RS
Don't clear the playlist before adding any MRLs;
don't start playing the first new MRL.
.RE
.PP
.B \-f
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.B \-\-full\-screen
.RS
Start in full-screen mode.
.RE
.PP
.BI \-c \ Javascript
.br
.BI \-\-command \ Javascript
.RS
Javascript command(s) to be executed immediately after starting up.
.RE
.PP
.B \-v
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.B \-\-verbose
.RS
Verbose mode: output information about plugins, the video stream, commands
executed etc. Repeat for more verbosity.
.RE

.SH FEATURES
.PP
There are a couple of features which aren't immediately obvious:
in full-screen mode, you can right-click to get access to the menus, or
middle-click to show or hide the player controls.

.SH SEE ALSO
.UR http://xinehq.de/
.IR "http://xinehq.de/",
.UE
.BR xine (1),
.BR totem (1),
.BR kaffeine (1).
.br
.BR xine "(5) for MRL syntax documentation (libxine >= 1.0.2)."
.br

.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Darren Salt
<linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>. It is based on an older version written
by Philipp Matthias Hahn <pmhahn@titan.lahn.de> for Debian.

.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2001\-2005 The xine project
